[Freedos-user] Away from email

2008-10-04 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone, A personal emergency has come up, and I'm going to be offline for the next few days, possibly a few weeks. Sorry. If news items come up, Eric Aitor have the ability to post news to the web site. I'll leave it to them to catch news items as they happen and get them on the

Re: [Freedos-user] required BIOS services FAQ item

2008-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Hans, I just updated my BIOS to report any unsupported INT/service calls, Can you give a short overview of your hardware and of the functions your BIOS already does support? :-) I cannot resist answering before the FAQ is up again (still needs config fixes after SF update) so here you

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS as open source? (was - Re: Games report...)

2008-10-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Travis Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about opensource, but there are versions of msdos 6.22 source floating around on the net. It appears to be a complete source version, including things like qbasic as well as all the kernel code and such.

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS as open source? (was - Re: Games report...)

2008-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I don't know about opensource, but there are versions of msdos 6.22 source floating around on the net. It appears to be a complete source version, including things like qbasic as well as all the kernel code and such. Perhaps it's escape wasn't entirely accidental? Still it would be

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS services

2008-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Aitor, Hans, a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know if you find other programs which do not work on 80186 processors.

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/21 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: prompt $p$g set path=a:\dos set NLSPATH=A:\DOS\NLS set LANG=PT lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... I don't see in what sense will notifying that his machine is codepage 437 help out. From his

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-04 Thread Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
Hello Eric! Am Sonntag, 28. September 2008 schrieb Eric Auer: How about COUNTRY=049,437 or COUNTRY=049 ... Thanks, I'll give it a try. As soon as my ancient i486DX-50 is running again... If the plan holds this will be next year. And it will be running FreeDOS and all those DOS programs I've

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a word processor...

2008-10-04 Thread Robert Riebisch
Skyler Orlando wrote: ...like Edit, but with word wrap. And, a substantially higher size limit, if any. (multiple MB) I've never seen anyone writing multiple Mbytes of *plain text*! Are you really sure, that this is what you want? Maybe other tools would fit much better. Does anyone know of

[Freedos-user] Application crash

2008-10-04 Thread D.A.
Hello. I have many silent and verbose crashes with Nautilus Digital Voice Communicator -- Version 1.5a. However, in the same time Nautilus works very well in DR-DOS. Will be 100% crash when 'NAUTILUS_CONFIG_FILE' variable are set or '-s arg' (port lock speed) and sometimes '-e arg' (cipher)

Re: [Freedos-user] Cyrillic charset.

2008-10-04 Thread Alain M.
Hi Aitor, How difficult is it to change menu and controlkeys in Edir 0.9 to mimic M$ Edit in Portuguese? Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Hello, 2008/10/1 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! 1) I have discover strange behaviour in the 'FreeDOS Edit 0.7d'. When I type cyrillic 'п' (hex

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! It seems there was some delay in some emails here so some of my replies today might be out of context. lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) Maybe vga,437,1 instead? Sorry that was just a guess - basically because I use the VGA,437,1 setting and it works for me :-) From his AUTOEXEC he does not

Re: [Freedos-user] Application crash

2008-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I have many silent and verbose crashes with Nautilus Digital Voice Communicator -- Version 1.5a. However, in the same time Nautilus works very well in DR-DOS. Hmm okay. Will be 100% crash when 'NAUTILUS_CONFIG_FILE' variable are set or '-s arg' (port lock speed) and sometimes '-e arg'

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a word processor...

2008-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Robert, ...like Edit, but with word wrap. And, a substantially higher size limit, if any. (multiple MB) I've never seen anyone writing multiple Mbytes of *plain text*! Well for example RBIL (intlist / ralf brown's interrupt list) is several MB, but you only want to view it, not edit